Is there a way to track the time that you are logged in to the Canvas site? I need to be able to print out and provide proof to somebody of how long I have been logged in and doing "study time." Thanks in advance!
Is there a way to track the time that you are logged in to the Canvas site? I need to be able to print out and provide proof to somebody of how long I have been logged in and doing "study time." Thanks in advance!
Charlotte, on the student side of things there isn't a way to show total time spent in the course or working on things. On the teacher side, there is the ability to see total time spent in the course - but this doesn't show proof of the student doing anything during the time, it's just that the student was logged into the course during the time. On the admin side of Canvas, there is a way to generate a report showing when a student clicked on things and submitted things, but it's not by course, it's for all of Canvas. So... the answer is there is kind of a way to do this, but you would need to contact the Canvas Admin's at your specific school (this is the global Canvas Community) - if you're not sure how, try clicking on the Help link in Canvas and Report a Problem.
Hope this helps!
Kona
Kona,
In your post above you mentioned "On the admin side of Canvas, there is a way to generate a report showing when a student clicked on things and submitted things, but it's not by course, it's for all of Canvas." Is there a way to do this for faculty? If so, can you explain a little further?
I have been asked to report how much time instructors are spending in Canvas (collectively) for a given term. Do you know of any way this can be done?
Thanks
Bill
BILL, I just replied to the question you posted about this (Activity Log for Instructors), but if you really need this information and don't mind doing it manually you could technically download an page view report for each teacher. It's the exact same one that you can download for students, so it would be a mix of everything they were doing in Canvas, not just time spent in one class (Ex: would include Inbox conversations or work in other courses - like training course, next semester courses, etc).
If this is ok, then do a search for an Instructor (on the admin side) and at the bottom of their profile page is a "Page Views" log. The initial log doesn't have that much information, but it does have a "Time" column which is in seconds (as the unit of measurement). If you'd like to use this then my recommendation is to copy and paste it into an Excel file; this will take a while because as you scroll down it will have to continually load new dates/information. Once the information is in the Excel file you can then do a "sum" of the Time column and divide that sum by 60 to get the total number of minutes (or 3600 to get the total number of hours) an Instructor has been working in Canvas.
If you want more detailed information you can scroll over to the right column (and the top where it says, "User Agent csv") and click on just the csv part. That will give you a csv file you can download with a lot more detail/information. The only issue with this report is that it only documents a certain number of interactions (Ex: The report for one Instructor I just checked only went back to 7/6 because they had so much activity over the last few days, but another Instructor went back to the beginning of June).
Hope this helps!
Kona
Charlotte, on the student side of things there isn't a way to show total time spent in the course or working on things. On the teacher side, there is the ability to see total time spent in the course - but this doesn't show proof of the student doing anything during the time, it's just that the student was logged into the course during the time. On the admin side of Canvas, there is a way to generate a report showing when a student clicked on things and submitted things, but it's not by course, it's for all of Canvas. So... the answer is there is kind of a way to do this, but you would need to contact the Canvas Admin's at your specific school (this is the global Canvas Community) - if you're not sure how, try clicking on the Help link in Canvas and Report a Problem.
Hope this helps!
Kona